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Debian is a community-driven GNU/Linux distribution which provides a large range of packages and supports a large range of architectures. It strongly focuses on free software. It has several derivatives, notably Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

Whenever i start a 32-bit program aka. 386 with primusrun on debian jessie (be it steam or any of it's 32-bit games), i get a following error:
wv@localhost:~$ primusrun steam
Running Steam on debian ...

I working on BeagleBone Black(Debian running on it) and I have connected a 3G USB dongle (Huawei E173u-2) with it for GPRS and sending SMS.
Now I am facing a problem when I am booting my board(dongle ...

I have accidentally changed the permission of "/usr/bin" directory and its files by the command:
$chmod 775 /usr/bin -R
First, there was a problem with sudo but I fixed it. Now I am suspicious that ...

I downloaded debian-live-8.1.0-i386-standard.iso
from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.1.0-live/i386/iso-hybrid/
and booted a system from it , logged in with "user" and password as "live". NOW, ...

My lab is on a VLAN. If the machines are connected to the VLAN they can connect to the Internet. If not they can't. Installing the VLAN package enables network connectivity. However, I don't know how ...

In the past years I used debootstrap to install my desktop Debian (daily usage) and I'm planning to use it once again, but until now I just used debootstrap default options, this time instead I'd like ...

My machine (ThinkPad x230) hangs on wake up from s2disk or s2ram after a recent aptitude safe-upgrade.† The hang looks like a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper right after loading data ...

I'm working with a small Arm board (Emtrion) running Debian Linux. Emtrion has provided an sdcard image that can update the boards flash. I would like to extend the simple update script, so that when ...

I've been using FTDI usb serial cables on OSX with really no thought for years. Now, I'm trying to get the same cables working on Linux (Linux Mint, Debian Edition 2). What I understand so far is...
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So, this is an inversion of the classic question: "Why is my terminal blank on boot?" -- How do I make my terminal blank on boot?
I'm creating a Debian Wheezy system with GRUB as the boot loader that ...

I never had issues with Debian 7 using iptables. However, with Debian 8, I cannot get iptables to work at all.
Simple script like this takes several minutes to load and can't access my portal page.
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I've installed Debian Wheezy. After a while (working properly without any problem), I see some problems while working in gnome. Some functions don't work properly, for example desktop icons are not ...

How to install Cuda Toolkit 7.0 on Debian 8?
I know that Debian 8 comes with the option to download and install Cuda Toolkit 6.0 using apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit, but how do you do this for ...

I was trying to solve the problem mentioned here: Running (X) Xfce4 in Debian chroot
The solution he mentioned was to "bind /run/udev". As far as I see, it is suggested that binding host's /run/udev ...

I have a Debian 7 VPS setup. I just enabled SSH Key authentication and disabled password authentication but the disabling did not work.
When I attempt to SSH into my VPS, it prompts me for my SSH Key ...